Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-20

MAJOR G.. 81. BURTON, Inspector
General of the Department Of the Mis-
souri,, Is engaged in inspecting the forts in
the Indian Territory.
THE election of Sir. Charles Upper, of
Halifax, N S., to the Dominion House of
Commons has been voided on account of
bribery by his agents.
THE st. Louis Browns won the fifth
game of the worlds baseball champion
ship series at Brooklyn, on the 14th. The
score was: st. Louis, s.; Detroits, 2.
THE Civil-Service Commission has or
dered an investigation concerning the en-
forcement of the Civil-Service law and
rules in the Kansas City (Mo.) post-office.
THE Mormon conference has adjourned
without choosing president of the church.
MILFORD Woodruff remains president by
virtue of his office as head of the twelve
apostles.
THE Duchess of Cumberland, who was
put into a Vienna insane asylum some
months ago, has completely recovered her
reason, and will leave the institution in a
few days.
]. T. ODELL, assistant general manager
of the Northern Pacific, Eastern division,
has resigned and accepted the position of
general manager of the Chesapeake &
Ohio at salary of $4,000 year.
IT is about settled that no one will ever
know definitely how many persons per-
ished in the recent Chicago & Atlantic
horror near Kouts, Ind. The estimates
continue to vary from thirty down to ten.
IT may be put down as a settled fact
that the Government officials will do all in
hot. <0f Inv 20 ha
many recent complaints made by people
in Iowa regarding the eviction of settlers
from lands.
THE greatest ball game of the season
was the third of the worlds championship
series, played at Detroit, Mich, on the
18th. Thirteen innings were required to
decide it, the score finally resulting to
in favor of the Detroits.
A TERRIBLE railroad disaster occurred
near Kouts, Ind, on the night of the 10th,
in which it is believed thirty human lives
were lost. The railroad officials appear to
be trying to suppress the worst features
of the accident, and its cause.
THE court at Leipsic has sentenced John
Nevee, one of the German Anarchists, to
fifteen years penal servitude. He was
convicted of melting to high treason,
violating the explosives law,o circulating
forbidden pamphlets and of perjury.
GERMANY will not send a war-ship to
Morocco, but will intrust to England the
protection of Germans residing in Mo roc
co. This resolution is regarded in political
circles here as q proof of the cordial
entente between the Germans and the
English.
THE students Of Dartmouth College, VT,
struggled donkey into the chapel on the
18th, and the exercises had to be held
while the animal remained on the plat
form with President Bartlett and the
other members of the faculty. There was
much amusement over the affair.
THE International encampment at Chi
cago has not been q success financially.
The local companies are receiving no cash
on prizes awarded, and the visiting COM
panies are settling on the best terms
possible, some taking fifty per cent. and
some taking parts Of accounts in notes.
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON writes to
the Medical Ne,os that the fatal progress
of the disease atTampa prevents adhesion
to the theory that it is dengue and not yell
low fever. He insists upon the necessity
of isolation, segregation, municipal clean
illness, careful quarantine and special hos
pitfalls.
DHULEEP SINGH and the executive COM
mittee of the Indian Liberation Society are
printing on the Irish secret press in Paris
an appeal to the natives Of British India
to awake from their topper and prove that
they are no longer the dupes of English
merchants and the slaves of English gov
errors.
AT q village election at Alfred Center
N. Y, on the 18th, ten women cast votes,
and the election officers received them, de-
claring that the legal opinions gathered
and published by Hamilton Wilcox, coun-
sci for the Woman's Suffrage party, had
convinced them of the legal right of wom-
en- to vote.
A DELEGATION of the Oneida Indian
tribe of Wisconsin had an interview with
Secretary Lamar on the 18th in regard to
taking the lands in severalty. They also
presented certain matters affecting the in
terests of the tribe, among which was q
request fox an appropriation of $500, 600 to
set them up in farming.
THE English cutter Galatea, with Lieu
tenant and Mrs. HEM aboard, weighed
anchor on the afternoon of the 18th, of
Bay Ridge, N. Y, and started for home.
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and though the weather was cloudy and
inclined to rain, many yachtsmen assem-
bled to see the cutter of.
THE North German Lloyd steamer Elder
arrived in New York on the 10th from
Bremen and Southampton, bringing the
body of Mrs. Lucretia B. Farnum, of New
Haven, Conn.,, who died at sea October
from an apopletic stroke. Mrs Farnum
was eighty years old, and was sister of
GeorSe Bancroft, the historian, and an
aunt of Rear Admiral Gherardi, of the
United States navy.
A GENERAL order has been issued from
army hea dquarters showing the results of
the competition this year of distinguished
marksmen in the army and announcing
the names of twenty-nine officers and men,
who, in consequences OF having Tor three
wears won places on department rife
teams or three of the prize medals, have
been placed in the class of distinguished
marksmen and awarded handsome oadges.
DIR. A. NJ. HAMBLIN, one OF those evlcted
In O'Brien County, Ia, says that the hall
has not been told of the horrors of the
eyictions. Many Of the families are living
on the public highways in tents made OF
quilts and sheets. Old men of seventy,
manned soldiers and widows, have lost
their homes and are sleeping on the cold
ground. The British syndicate has taken
their teams and mich cows to pay the cost
of the eyictions. There were 120 families
evictcd